Quotes About Empathy

I consider all women as mother. I compose poems for any female considering her as mother.

If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart.

If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.

As fire kindled by fire, so is the poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.

I think that's what poetry does. It allows people to come together and identify with a common thing that is outside of themselves, but which they identify with from the interior.

Poetry is a beautiful way of expressing feelings - happy, sad, angry, caring. It's also a way that we share with other people, to help them with those feelings.

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

I feel very connected to poets across the country.

Poets, for example, are generally considered starry-eyed and sensitive, but only by those who have never encountered one.

You constantly have to take inventory, not get on someone else's agenda. You want to write something that's poignant and moves people.

Most people in their lives do feel like they are outsiders at some point.

I take people the way they are. You could work all your life to change them, and they never will. What's the point? They need to be who they are.

I always try to be optimistic, but not to the point where I'm getting on people's nerves.

For me, as a point guard, you have to construct everything. If you make everybody happy, you are going to be happy.

I think, in any debate, you have to respect the other person's point of view, if you agree or disagree.

I'm very confident in my point of view. 'Cause I think that that's all you can really have. I'm never really going to know what anybody else is going through, so it's just kind of your job to be expressive with your point of view.

I believe writers need to be chameleons, or like Meryl Streep, who can play all sorts of characters. A good writer should be able to cross gender lines and people of all social classes. So for me, writing from a male point of view would be a great challenge, that I would look forward to taking on.

I identify entirely with Jane Austen's point of view, on everything.

When I hear a story, I think about it from the point of view of the audience.

It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not.

One of the great pleasures of acting is surrendering to someone else's point of view of the world - living inside a character and a story that never would have come out of your mind or heart.

It's something that I feel I know about, relationships between men and women. I like to write from the woman's point of view now and again, to get inside her head, to feel what she's feeling.

I have this exercise where I force myself to look out from the flower's point of view at these great walloping humans coming down the path, and try, just try and feel it from their point of view because it's a different world to them, a fascinating hard one.

My point of view when I make a book or I make a movie is to see the humanistic point of view. The point of view of the daily life of normal people.